Long Awaited Sequel is More than Worth the Wait!

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	• Stone Cold David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 127 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Long Awaited Sequel is More than Worth the Wait!

Well, there are so many well-written reviews of this book that all I have to say is, hooray for Annabel Conroy! Let's see more of this smart and sassy Irish lady in Baldacci's upcoming novels. I'm sad for one of the members (no spoilers here), and I just know Oliver/John will rise to the occasion some other day. Baldacci kind of bored some of us with the initial Camel Club book, but The Collectors definitely brought us some anticipatory goodies. This sequel will have you hanging onto the edge of your seat like some white knuckle ride at an amusement park. Hang onto your hats kids, because David Baldacci is going to pull rabbits out of them the next time around if you don't. And that's a very good thing!

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He does this well.

Author Jan Dynes who wrote Refraction, suggested that I read this author and she was right, I really enjoy David Balducci. His style is very similar to my other favorite novelists. He builds the characters and involves me as a reader, in his plot. It is what I loved about Refraction. I think that they are both at the top of their field. Must reads!

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Great Reading

This is the 3rd book in a trilogy and it's very exciting and fun to read. The Collectors and The Camel Club are the first two books in the series and I enjoyed them both very much. David Baldacci is a good writer who moves the story along very ably. He brings his characters to life and makes you care about them.

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A Rip-roaring Thriller

Fete of Death "Stone Cold" is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller starring the shadowy CIA hit man Oliver Stone, not to be confused with the eponymous conspiracy-minded movie director of "JFK." Men involved in Stone's unsavory and violent past are being picked off by a ruthless assassin.

Stone, with good reason, begins to fear for his own life. It is obvious to him that someone out there, most likely a member of Washington's powerful elite who has a dark secret to hide, wants Stone and his former operatives dead. The only certain way to protect this secret is by eliminating Stone and his cronies who are in the loop.

The story moves at a brisk pace and hurtles forward courtesy of plot twists and a plethora of action. I myself haven't read Baldacci's Oliver Stone prequel "The Camel Club," but I found reading it isn't necessary to enjoying or understanding "Stone Cold." I did read "Hour Game," an earlier thriller sans Oliver Stone by Baldacci, and, for my money, "Stone Cold" is an improvement, both in its pacing and story line.

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Best in Show Among the Camel Club Series

Stone Cold surpassed the first two books in this Baldacci Series ... The Camel Club (1st) and The Collectors (2nd). The author completed the development of his lead character Oliver Stone and firmly knotted the loose threads of his former CIA career. The political espionage was pausible; the pace relentless. Baldacci carried the storyline of his apolitical characters from The Collectors giving us more twists in the sub-plot between the ruthless Casino boss and the lovely con artist. I finished the book in two readings within 24 hours and enjoyed every page. I highly recommend reading this series in the correct sequence, otherwise important details about the characters' background will detract from the appreciaton of the story.

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The #1 bestselling author of The Collectors and Simple Genius returns with STONE COLD...an unforgetable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings a band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat.

Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington, D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies, but it has also earned formidable enemies-including those in power who will do anything to prevent Stone and his friends from uncovering the hidden, secret work of the government.

Annabelle Conroy, an honorary member of the Camel Club, is also the greatest con artist of her generation. She has swindled forty million dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger, the man who murdered her mother. Now he's hot on her trail with only one goal in mind: Annabelle's death. But as Stone and the Camel Club circle the wagons to protect Annabelle, a new opponent, who makes Bagger's menace pale by comparison, suddenly arises.

One by one, men from Stone's shadowy past are turning up dead. Behind this slaughter stands one man: Harry Finn. To almost all who know him, Finn is a doting father and loving husband who uses his skills behind the scenes to keep our nation safe. But the other face of Harry Finn is that of an unstoppable killer who inevitably sets his lethal bull's-eye on Oliver Stone. And with Finn, Stone may well have met his match.

As Annabelle and the Camel Club fight for their lives, the twists and turns whipsaw, leading to a finale that is as explosive as it is shattering. And when buried secrets are at last violently resurrected, the members of the Camel Club left standing will be changed forever.

With unrelenting pacing, stunning reversals, and two of the most compelling characters in modern fiction, STONE COLD is David Baldacci writing at his breathtaking best.

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